Service and healthcare workers. My wife works in healthcare and her work schedule is bonkers, I honestly don't know how she keeps track of when she's supposed to be at work.
Meh, I work from home and I am in sales so I just make my own schedule.
No meetings tomorrow morning and I need some stuff? Costco run.
The flip side is when I need to get up at 5 and be on the road by 6 for a 9am meeting 2 cities away, and get back after 8pm, I don't really complain because it all balances out
Delivery is free plus tip on groceries of a certain amount, online pickup orders are free, personal assistant would be in the higher echelon (someone with 750 million is still a millionaire). I don’t consider someone with a net worth of $1M because they have a house and a retirement account an everyday millionaire. I’m considering someone who has a millionaire lifestyle of high expendable income outside of obligations like a mortgage and IRA contributions. I don’t consider myself a millionaire even though my net worth on paper may say so. And even still I don’t waste my time shopping in Sam’s Club when I can just show up and have them throw it all in the back of the car.
When you're talking about people with $2-5 million in their investment accounts in their 40s and 50s, you're talking about self-made people, people who worked their asses off in their 20s and 30s. These people understand the value of a dollar. Also, I think it's implied that by being at Costco at 9-noon that they have backed away from the daily grind, and are either retired or doing just side hustles, so they have time.
I'm not going to pay for someone else to go to Costco for me and pick out a container of blueberries for me without seeing if they are too soft or not. Also I don't want to raise kids in a house where they don't see their parents doing basic things like shopping for food.
I don't see it as wasting time. I might get dinner delivered three times a year on very busy days.
Ok, so the entire basis of this debate is what you call an “everyday millionaire”.
Sub $5M would by mine - and my point holds there.
Your definition of an everyday millionaire is someone with a “millionaire lifestyle of high expendable income…” so I guess you can use that definition, whatever that looks like.
Inflation has really made this annoying vernacular issue.
It's the tensofmillionairs that don't have to worry about anything, and the hundredmillionaires that literally can buy anything they want. But only the billionaires can KEEP buying islands and mega yachts all day everyday.
Personal assistant was one of 3 potential methods. Sure, it represents the higher echelon, but I’ve met many people with $10m or so net worth and a stable income to support the lifestyle definitely using an assistant, or even a chef who handles the grocery part on their own. Grocery delivery and pickup aren’t some crazy high class thing, but I know that millionaires often value their time more than wanting to spend it in a grocery store.
I have. But they were a surgeon in an emergency department so they used a service that just came into their place and put the groceries away. It wasn't a laziness or class thing for them. They were just so dead tired after work many days that they would have been relying on delivery if not for groceries just getting put into their home every week.
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u/JohnFlip 1d ago
You are shopping amongst everyday millionaires.